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Hong Kong literature has attracted attention only in recent years. The present paper gives a sketch of the development of Hong Kong literature as reflected by local literary periodicals and subsequently dwells on the specific nature of this literature by taking up some recent examples. (DÜI-Sbt)

The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the "textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories characteristic for textual description – as far as possible for them. This process is shown by examples from the works of Xenophon, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Philitas of Kos and Archimedes. The author also tries to show some of the consequences that the phenomenon of the Hellenistic textualization of experience had for the later epochs of European culture.

Niccolò Machiavelli : a demonized humanist or a monster of modern politics? -- Giambattista Vico : power and imagination in the dispute between ancients and moderns -- Cervantes vs. Shakespeare : the sociogenesis of love and friendship in Don Quixote and Romeo and Juliet -- Behind utopias : where shall the conservative imagination be found? -- Behind dystopias : where shall the liberal imagination be found?